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...Lausanne last week the robbery was made good. No longer even a Prince but, after renunciation of his rights, merely "Count de Covadonga," the Bourbon Bridegroom put on a brave front. "Most princesses in Europe," said he, "are empty-headed little dancing flirts. I am getting a real princess, one who is sweet and serious and will make a real home...
Shimmering in white satin, trailing a ten-foot train, Senorita Sampedro approached the altar to exchange rings, Latin fashion. Her bridegroom, she knew, had broken down in sobs the night before, when told that ex-King Alfonso XIII irrevocably disapproved. Now he was smiling. Beside him stood the only Spanish grandee who could be induced to come, Duke Manuel Almadova, as best...
Outside, rain poured down in sheets. Despite a seeming cure hemophilia-successively the curse of the Romanovs and the Bourbons-brooded over the match. In haste Father Borel read a brief Latin, service. Swiss police, alarmed by a threatening note that the bridegroom was in "grave danger," guarded every shadow of the church. Almost furtively, as the serv ice ended, the new Count & Countess slipped out, dashed away in a motor car to spend their honeymoon some 30 miles distant at Evian-les-Bains...
...Alexander Sneed. 86-year-old Confederate veteran, was boosted up into a truck in front of the State historical building in the capital to "marry" Mrs. Warren Butz as "Miss Indian Territory." Mrs. Butz played the same role at Guthrie a quarter- century ago. The temperature was 32°. Bridegroom Sneed refused to take off his overcoat, did remove his black felt hat. Joked shivering Bride Butz: "I c-could get m-married a h-h-heap quicker than this...
Swedes love Italy. As soon as possible Swedish Bridegroom Gustaf Adolf whisked off with his Coburg Sibylle to the blue, foam-flecked waters and sun-dappled hillsides of southern Italy...